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Nintendo Releases Unexplained Animated Short ‘Close to You’

The four-minute, Pixar-like clip arrived without context, prompting fan theories as media await clarification.

Overview

  • Nintendo posted the nearly four-minute short to the Nintendo Today app, YouTube and social channels with only the title as description, and YouTube comments turned off.
  • The dialogue-free film shows a toddler’s toys and pacifier moving as if carried by unseen forces, leading the child to take first steps, with no identifiable Nintendo characters on screen.
  • Viewers noted piano motifs resembling Pikmin music and a brief, blurry background figure some interpret as a Red Pikmin, though any connection remains unconfirmed.
  • Others suggest the baby could be a young Rosalina and speculate about a tie-in to the recently announced e SuSuper Mario Galaxy Movie, which is likewise unverified.
  • Outlets report they have asked Nintendo for details, and coverage points to Nintendo Pictures—formed after the 2022 Dynamo Pictures acquisition—as a likely in-house source for the high-quality animation.